Two different women born in two very different places, Dorothy Fanny and Maria Guadalupe Felix share two different experiences through interviews and share a wealth of memories and rich insight of their ever maturing lives. Their place of birth, education, work, and their personal lives are shared as to giving us a glimpse of their mark in history.

Dorothy Fanny was born on April 29, 1923, to a pair of hardworking middle-class parents named Allen Michael Stern and Sarah Stern. Her name at birth was Dorothy Lee Stern. She was born in a small 3 bedroom house in Watertown, New York. Dorothy currently just turned the longed reached age of 90. Maria Guadalupe Felix was born on September 28, 1928 and has reached the age of 85. Maria was born in a small one bedroom clay house in El Pozo, Sinaloa, Mexico, Her parents where farmers of their own land, in which their names are Manuel Vicente Arias and Margarita Arias.

Dorothy went to school in Watertown and graduated from Watertown High School in 1941. Her school was attended by predominately white Caucasian students. The community of Watertown was a small and everybody knew each other, under which made her childhood experience was a positive one. There was an opportunity for Dorothy to attend a university but she opted to pursue a career as a nurse by joining the Army Nurse Corps. Maria Guadalupe Felix attended a very small elementary school a couple of miles from her home. She could not complete her education for the school did not have sufficient teacher to accommodate the classrooms. The difficulties of maintaining a somewhat large family farm finally took its toll on Maria and decided to stop her education and help the family with farm. While she attended school, the student body composed of many poor Mexican children for the surrounding area. Maria’s childhood community consisted of my farm houses near the Sierra Madre in El Pozo, Sinaloa, so there was not many families around to make a community, making her childhood experience a modest one.

1947 was the year Dorothy Fanny moved to California, she was 24 years old. Her reason to moving to California was the fact that she met a young man named Jack Fanny in New York and convinced her to move to the west coast after the war. It was an immediate shock to her to find out that there are no four seasons in sunny Southern California. She loved the beautiful beaches and the diversity of Orange County. After two years of settling down in California, Dorothy Fanny married Jack Fanny in a small ceremonial wedding in The First Presbyterian Church of Anaheim. Maria Guadalupe Felix immigrated to the United States at age 16 during the spring of 1944, to find work, and in addition to; also following her sister Georgina to California. Maria’s experience traveling to the United States was more of a funny adventure in the beginning. Despite crossing across the border multiple times illegally, she always found herself back in Mexicali and devising other plans to get in without having to cross through the desert. Maria and her sister found permanent residence in 1946, working on in the farm fields of El Monte, California. After years of working in the fields and saving enough money to move to Orange County to find a more suitable kind of work.

Dorothy found her calling as a nurse for the Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Dorothy deployed to England in support for wounded soldiers that were fighting in Europe. After the war, Dorothy made way to New York City and found a dashing and charming man named Jack Fanny in which she followed to California and then married. She found no need to continue working as for...

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